From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:07:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/11] Introduce git-history(1) command for easy history editing
Message-ID: <CABPp-BGLrVv=maEqhs=j9MmST-F=K=XN6gGqmd9Hox5QRDMiHg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20251027-b4-pks-history-builtin-v6-0-407dd3f57ad3@pks.im>

On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 4:34 AM Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> over recent months I've been playing around with Jujutsu quite
> frequently. While I still prefer using Git, there's been a couple
> features in it that I really like and that I'd like to have in Git, as
> well.
>
> A copule of these features relate to history editing. Most importantly,
> I really dig the following commands:
>
>   - jj-abandon(1) to drop a specific commit from your history.
>
>   - jj-absorb(1) to take some changes and automatically apply them to
>     commits in your history that last modified the respective hunks.
>
>   - jj-split(1) to split a commit into two.
>
>   - jj-new(1) to insert a new commit after or before a specific other
>     commit.
>
> Not all of these commands can be ported directly into Git. jj-new(1) for
> example doesn't really make a ton of sense for us, I'd claim. But some
> of these commands _do_ make sense.
>
> This patch series is a starting point for such a command. I've
> significantly slimmed it down from the first couple revisions now
> following the discussions at the Contributor's Summit yesterday. This
> was my intent anyway, as I already mentioned on the last iteration.

Sorry for taking so long to review the series now that it's based on
replay.  Thanks for working on this!